Cumulus Networks Now Powers Over 1 Million Switch Ports Worldwide

Cumulus
Networks®, the company bringing the power of Linux to networking,
today announced its technology now powers well over 1 million switch
ports worldwide demonstrating significant traction in the market for its
Cumulus Linux offering. The company now serves customers in sizes
ranging from webscale to small business, in industries ranging from
technology to education, and in multiple markets worldwide that have
embraced Cumulus® Linux® software within their data center environments.

Cumulus Networks’ rapidly expanding customer base can be attributed in
great part to increased hardware offerings and new purchasing channels.
Now supporting 16 hardware platforms, two CPU architectures and five
hardware vendors, Cumulus Linux software gives customers the power to
build their data center around the specific needs of their business
without being locked in by one vendor. With a newly
expanded channel partner program covering three strategic regions,
the company’s solution is now available to an even broader range of
customers.

“Just over a year ago, we brought the transformational impact of Linux
out of the data center and introduced it to networking, and enterprises
have responded well to its promise of breaking vendor lock-in,
increasing performance and significantly reducing hardware costs,” said
JR Rivers, co-founder and CEO, Cumulus Networks. “Our continued
expansion is a testament to the growing demand in the industry for
solutions that empower more choice, ease and flexibility within their
data centers. It is now just as easy to choose Cumulus Linux as it is
any other solution, and customers are overwhelmingly deciding against
vendor lock-in.”

New market opportunities have driven customer demand for Cumulus Linux
software. In January, Cumulus Networks announced a reseller
agreement with Dell, delivering Cumulus Linux software to Dell’s
broad global customer base. Cumulus Networks also oversaw the opening
of the first Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) certification lab
at the University of San Antonio. An extension of the first Open
Compute Project (OCP) Certification Laboratory in North America, the
ONIE certification lab helps introduce enterprises interested in open
data center approaches to Cumulus Networks’ major contribution to OCP –
a major enabler of the implementation of modern data center networking
architectures.

Additional Commentary:

BroadSoft

“When Cumulus Networks released ONIE back to the OCP community, we knew
the company had a similar philosophy to BroadSoft because that
ultimately benefited the consumer,” said Nathan Stratton, VP Technology,
BroadSoft. “We believe that the data center’s future lies in a
disaggregated model with white-box switching, and ONIE has become a
force for enabling new scale-out architectures. We selected Cumulus
Linux software for our deployments around the globe not only for its
open commitment, but because it’s the only offering that allows us to
seamlessly leverage existing investments in homegrown tools, as well as
tools like Puppet and Chef.”

IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan)

“IIJ has a strong culture that embraces open tools and practices that
optimize the utilization of automation tools to lower total cost of
ownership. It’s this culture that led us to leverage Cumulus Linux
software in our deployment supporting our web applications,” said
Takashi Sogabe, Lead Engineer, IIJ. “With Cumulus Linux software, we can
now use our existing investments, like server management tools such as
Chef, to configure networking switches. This utility helps us save
significantly on costs while also increasing productivity, and we intend
to leverage Cumulus Linux software more as we increase our use of
container type modular data center architectures built on open source.”

Mount Pleasant Independent School District

“Mount Pleasant Independent School District always looks for new
technologies to improve our data center operations and lower costs. Now
mature and proven enough to look at for production deployment, open
source software is a natural fit for this mission,” said Noe Arzati,
Director of Technology, Mount Pleasant Independent School District.
“Cumulus Linux’s platform is a natural fit for our environment because
it integrates so well with OpenStack and our network virtualization
solution. Because of its flexibility and easy integration, Cumulus
Networks will play a large part in the next-generation data center we’re
designing around these technologies.”

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Ooyala

“At Ooyala, we have a distinct DevOps culture. Legacy 'command-line'
solutions prevented us from extending automation processes similar to
those in our server environment to the network infrastructure,” said Bao
Nguyen, Network Engineer, Ooyala. “By integrating Cumulus Linux
software, we were are able to maximize our prior investments in software
and processes. We can now seamlessly utilize more open source and modern
data center architectures into our environment without having to invest
in a new tool or hire teams to support legacy solutions. Our
productivity has increased significantly with Cumulus Networks, all
without forcing us to increase the size of our team or our operational
costs.”

UTSA

"Cumulus Networks enables us to give users maximum choice in hardware,
software and tools so they can build a solution based on the problem at
hand instead of deploying a solution because it’s the only thing a
vendor provides,” said Carlos Cardenas, Associate Director, Applied
Research in Cloud Computing, University of Texas at San Antonio. “With
Cumulus Linux software as the networking OS, networking gear is finally
at par with servers because users can manage their networking switches
using the same tools as a Linux server. Because getting a switch up and
running is now as familiar as deploying a server, our users have
significantly reduced their opex investment.”

Learn more about Cumulus Networks each week during our live webinars
with Q&A or our regular Coffee with Cumulus sessions. For more
information visit http://cumulusnetworks.com/webinars/.

Visit Cumulus Networks at VMworld, where the company will show off the
impact of Linux in the datacenter at booth #2442.

About Cumulus Networks

Cumulus Networks is bringing the Linux revolution to networking. Founded
by veteran networking engineers from Cisco and VMware, Cumulus Networks
makes the first Linux operating system for networking hardware and fills
a critical gap in realizing the true promise of the software-defined
data center. Just as Linux completely transformed the economics and
innovation on the server side of the data center, Cumulus Linux software
is doing the same for the network. It is radically reducing the costs
and complexities of operating modern data center networks for service
providers and enterprises. Cumulus Networks has received venture funding
from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter
Wagner and four of the original VMware founders. For more information
visit www.cumulusnetworks.com
or follow @cumulusnetworks.

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